• This is the on-line home of Carolina Short and Tomás García Ferrari. As such, is a collectively created mental space from where we do Interaction and Information Design for a selected list of friends, clients and enterprises – see our history in brief. It is also a reservoir of ideas, texts, videos and things that capture our attention.

Philip Zimbardo’s secret powers of time

Having lived in small towns and big cities (let alone different countries and cultures), time and its different ways of understanding it, has always been… →

This entry was written by Tomás, posted on 15 July, 2010. Filed under In video.

Education and linearity

In a recent appearance at TED, Sir Ken Robinson – the British author who shocked us a few years ago saying that schools kill creativity… →

This entry was written by Tomás, posted on 26 May, 2010. Filed under In video and tagged , , , .

Austin center for design

A new institution led by the recognized interaction designer Jon Kolko (associate creative director at →

This entry was written by Tomás, posted on 28 April, 2010. Filed under In general and tagged , , .

Paola Antonelli on the designers’ role

Johnny Holland interviewed Paola Antonelli, the design curator at the New York Museum of Modern Art (see Design and the… →

This entry was written by Tomás, posted on 23 January, 2010. Filed under In general and tagged .

About the International Journal of Communication

Reading a post by Carlos Scolari about the publication of his paper on ‘→

This entry was written by Tomás, posted on 17 September, 2009. Filed under In general and tagged , , .

roericht.net

I found yesterday the wonderful website of Hans (Nick) Roericht. He was a student/lecturer at the hfg ulm and later on at the hdk Berlin.… →

This entry was written by Carol, posted on 7 August, 2009. Filed under In general and tagged , , , , .

A fine line: a book by Hartmut Esslinger

Without any doubt, frog design is one of the biggest and more interesting design bureaus in the world. With… →

This entry was written by Tomás, posted on 15 July, 2009. Filed under In general and tagged , , , , .

World maps that change our vision

I came across Worldmapper a couple of years ago while I was preparing a tutorial at the Design Studies Department. For some reason,… →

This entry was written by Carol, posted on 30 June, 2009. Filed under In general and tagged , , , , .

Sir Ken Robinson at RISD

Sir Ken Robinson –the recognized British author– is one of my favorites thinkers when I consider the areas of education and creativity. Addressing an… →

This entry was written by Tomás, posted on 20 June, 2009. Filed under In video and tagged , , , .

Design, Arduino and the next wave

In the last decades designers have been moving away from ‘posters and toasters’ (in terms of Richard Buchanan) to a more complex scenario, computers… →

This entry was written by Tomás, posted on 29 May, 2009. Filed under In video and tagged , , .